Food Stamps Hit Record High Nearly one in five Americans did not have enough money to pay for food some time in the past year, according to Gallup.

Military Families Forced to Subsidize Income With Food BanksNBC Nightly News 8-17-14

Middle-class Americans see their incomes drop (CBS News) MIDDLETOWN, Ohio Both Mitt Romney and President Obama are courting middle-class voters -- many of whom fear the dream of a better life for their children is slipping away.

Between 2007 and 2010, the median net worth of the American family dropped 39 percent, numbers that go a long way to explain why the economic recovery has been modest and remains fragile. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It 40,000,000 in Poverty in America - Our Nation's Tragedy

The White Underclass

“As a practical matter, we can’t solve educational problems, health care costs, government spending or economic competitiveness so long as a chunk of our population is locked in an underclass. Historically, “underclass” has often been considered to be a euphemism for race, but increasingly it includes elements of the white working class as well.” Nicholas Kristof NYT Op-Ed Columnisthttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/opinion/kristof-the-decline-of-white-workers.html?src=me

Friends and Neighbors: How do you choose between paying your bills and feeding your kids?

America is getting poorer. The U.S. government has just released a bunch of new statistics about poverty in America, and once again this year the news is not good. According to a special report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million Americans are now living in poverty.